An F is 0.0 grade points on every scale, and its credits still count in the GPA denominator unless your school excludes it under a retake or forgiveness policy.

Does an A+ count as more than 4.0?

On the scales used here, no: A+ is 4.0. Some schools value A+ at 4.33, which can lift a GPA above 4.0 — check your school’s scale before using a 4.33 value officially.

Is a B+ worth 3.3 everywhere?

On most 4.0 scales, yes, but not all. A minority of schools use 3.5 for B+ or round to two decimals differently (3.33), and some whole-letter schools have no B+ at all. The converter uses 3.30, the common value — for an official transcript figure, use your own school’s table.

Can I use this for graduate school applications?

As a starting point, yes, but graduate admissions often recompute. Many programs look at the GPA of your last 60 credits, or at a major-field GPA, rather than the overall figure. Convert your letters here to understand your standing, then check whether the program asks for an overall, major or last-60-credits GPA before submitting.

What if my school uses percentages instead of letters?

Convert each percentage to a letter first — the letter grade calculator maps any percentage to its letter and points on both scales — then convert those letters to points here. If your school publishes a percentage-to-points table of its own, use that table directly instead of passing through letters.

Letter Grade to GPA Converter — What GPA Is Each Letter?

By Muhammad Mansoor Haidar, owner and developer · Last updated October 25, 2026

Letter grade

Schools differ: some value A+ at 4.33 and some use whole letters only. The A–F tab covers whole-letter schools; check your school’s scale for official transcripts.

B+ = 3.30 grade points on the plus / minus scale.

Plus / minus scale: letter to grade points

Letter	Grade points
A+ / A	4.00
A-	3.70
B+	3.30
B	3.00
B-	2.70
C+	2.30
C	2.00
C-	1.70
D+	1.30
D	1.00
D-	0.70
F	0.00

Letter grade to GPA chart (plus/minus scale)

Grade points per letter on the 97/93/90/87/83/80/77/73/70/67/63/60 scale.

Letter	Grade points
A+	4.00
A	4.00
A-	3.70
B+	3.30
B	3.00
B-	2.70
C+	2.30
C	2.00
C-	1.70
D+	1.30
D	1.00
D-	0.70
F	0.00

Letter grade to GPA chart (A–F scale)

Whole-letter schools use five point values only.

Letter	Grade points
A	4.00
B	3.00
C	2.00
D	1.00
F	0.00

How letter grades become GPA points

A GPA is built from grade points: each course’s letter is worth points (A = 4.0, B = 3.0, C = 2.0, D = 1.0, F = 0.0 on whole-letter scales), those points are multiplied by the course credits to give quality points, and quality points divided by total credits give the GPA. The converter answers the first step — what one letter is worth.

Plus/minus scales split each letter: A- is 3.7, B+ is 3.3, B- is 2.7 and so on. That is why two students with the same whole letters can have different GPAs when one school uses plus/minus and the other does not.

From one letter to a whole GPA

One letter alone does not make a GPA — credits decide how much it counts. An A in a 4-credit course contributes 16.0 quality points, while an A in a 1-credit course contributes 4.0. To turn a set of letters into a GPA, use the semester GPA calculator with each course’s letter and credits.

Letter → points: pick the letter, read its points on your school’s scale.
Points × credits = quality points for that course.
Total quality points ÷ total credits = GPA.

Plus/minus vs whole letters: why two students differ

On a whole-letter scale, a 91% and a 99% are both an A at 4.0 points. On a plus/minus scale, the 91% is an A- at 3.7 and the 99% is an A+ at 4.0. Over a semester, that split adds up: two students with the same whole letters can hold different GPAs purely because one school splits letters and the other does not. When comparing GPAs across schools, ask which scale produced each one.

How much one letter moves a GPA

Less than students expect, and credits decide how much less. Take a 15-credit semester at 3.60: swapping just the 2-credit A for a B+ moves it to 3.51 — a change of 0.09. The same swap in a 4-credit course would move it roughly twice as far. Single letters matter most in high-credit courses and in short records; in a 120-credit degree, one letter is a rounding error.

Why the same letter is worth different points at different schools

Grade-point tables are institutional, not universal. The converter uses the common 4.0 table — A 4.0, A- 3.7, B+ 3.3, B 3.0, down to F 0.0 — but real tables diverge in three places: the A+ value (4.0 here, 4.33 at some schools), the plus/minus steps (a few schools use 3.5 for B+ or 3.67 for A-), and whether plus/minus letters exist at all. Two transcripts can therefore show identical letters with different GPAs, and neither is wrong. For anything official — a scholarship, an application, a transfer evaluation — recompute from your own school’s published table, and treat this converter as the common-case answer.

Worked example: what GPA is a B+?

A student asks what one B+ is worth before averaging it with other courses.

Letter entered: B+
Plus/minus scale: 3.30 grade points
A–F scale: B = 3.00 grade points (plus/minus ignored)
In a 3-credit course: 9.90 quality points

A B+ is 3.30 points on the plus/minus scale. In a 3-credit course it contributes 9.90 quality points toward the GPA.

GPA conversion FAQs

Letter grade to GPA questions

What each letter is worth, and how points become a GPA.

An A is 4.0 grade points on both the plus/minus and the A–F scales used here. On the plus/minus scale A+ is also 4.0 points.

A B+ is 3.30 grade points on the plus/minus scale. On a whole-letter scale there is no B+ — the course counts as a B at 3.00 points.

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